Candlestick.



No. 637,67l. Y Patented Nov 2|, I899.

J SCHAFFER GANDLESTIGK.

(Application filed Nov. 5, 1898.)

(No Model.)

INVENTOR WITNESSES ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT Fries.

JAKOB SOHAFFER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CANDLESTICK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 637,671, dated November 21, 1899.

Application filed November 5, 1898. Serial No. 695,610. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern).-

Be it known that I, J AKOB SCHAFFER, a subject of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Candlesticks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention consists in novel features of construction of a candle stick or holder, as set forth in the following specification and claims and illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a face view of the candle stick or holder. Fig. 2 is a sectional edge view of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan view of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 shows a socketmember section. Fig. 5 shows a modification.

In the drawings is shown a multiple-socket candle stick or holder or one having sockets or receivers for more than one candle. A base is shown at 1, and the sockets 2 are connected at intermediate points to the base, a web 3 serving to connect to the base intermediate the sockets, as at points 4, by solder or other connecting means. A practical way is to form the socket member of two sections, each made of sheet metal bent to form flutings or half-sockets, connected to one another by a straight or intermediate web portion. On superposing these sections the corresponding flutings form sockets 2, and the intermediate or web portions, being secured or soldered together intermediate the sockets, as at points 5, will form a multiple-socket candlestick. In case a candle should burn low in a socket and heat the latter, the solder at 4 or 5, being at some distance from or intermediate the sockets, will not be heated to such a degree as to melt or detach, while if the socket were soldered directly to the base such heated socket might drop or melt loose and fall together with a lighted candle-stump, thus causing accidents. The web or intermediate portion is shown straight; but of course such web can be bent or curved, as seen fit. Such web, for example, could be bent into letter or flower form or into circular or other shape, as required, for decorating or other purposes, and a number or variety of such multiple candle holders could be clustered or arranged as required. The device could be used, for example, as a Christmas- 7 tree bracket, a web of suitable length and socket 2, which will retain a candle, while the intermediate single web 3 will answer the same as thedouble web 3. For light or cheap work this single-layer structure may be preferred.

The web or connection 3 or 3 could be connected to the base 1 by clips or like fasten ings 6; but as it requires time and labor to die or cut the clips and openings and to fit the clips to such openings or cuts into which the clips are to be inserted soldering may be preferred, as the latter allows the use of straight or rectilinear stock, which can of course be otherwise made or shaped or the can dlestick mounted on any suitable support, either stationary or movable. The web or connection 3 or 3 is shown unbroken, but could be perforated or made of open or fret work or otherwise,as requi red,and by suitable machinery.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A candlestick, comprising a member bent to form candlestick-sockets with integral web portions between said sockets, and abase to which said integral web portions between the candlestick-sockets are rigidly secured,

witnesses.

JAKQB SOHAFFER. Witnesses:

WM. 0. HAUFF, E. F. KASTENHUBER. 

